Topsy-Turvy

Want moral consensus?  You’re going to have to know what you’re up against.  From a lengthy, somewhat grumpy, but generally spot-on column by Quin Hillyer:

We’re now told that we can’t spank a misbehaving child; that we can’t read Huckleberry Finn because it features the “n” word; that we can’t name sports teams in honor of Indians; that syllogistic or “linear” logic is culturally oppressive; that it’s offensive if we pray in public or say “Merry Christmas”; and that we can’t allow our own 20-year-olds to drink a glass of wine with us in our own homes as a civilizing part of a holiday meal, but that we’re disastrously prudish if we don’t give them condoms for the sex we should be glad they are engaging in as a necessary form of self-expression.

In short, we’re told that so much of what we know is good and normal is actually bad, while so much that’s objectively awful is actually no big deal or even something worth admiring.

(source: At Sea in an Alien Culture, Where ‘Normal’ Is Defined as ‘Deviant’)

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